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Another word for lockup

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Noun

  1. A place for the confinement of persons in lawful detention

    See also:

    free

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Another word for lockup

Noun
  1. See also:

    jail

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • He's not going to get her committed without a few miles of red tape but just the threat of a lockup could drag her back to old Virginia.

  • I'm looking for storage space - about the size of a lockup garage.

  • You have to understand; in lockup, there are some who spew bull shit all the time and others who won't open their mouths and some who keep swearing they got framed so you've got to take what you hear in there and sort through the garbage.

  • If the Humax was trying to record whilst a file was transferring this may have caused the lockup.

  • Since putting on standby all the time when not in use have not had another lockup.

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